Sirin Kilicalp was an ethnically Kurdish school teacher who died in the October 10 bombing in Ankara, Turkey.

Noah Blaser is an independent journalist who has been based in Istanbul since 2011. He has written on Turkish politics and culture for Newsweek Europe... , Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, and the Atlantic.
Sirin Kilicalp was an ethnically Kurdish school teacher who died in the October 10 bombing in Ankara, Turkey.
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